[extropy-chat] The omniscience of God and the free will of Man

[Paul Grant]

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lorrey
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] The omniscience of God and the free will of
Man

--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <gpmap at runbox.com> wrote:
> There is an interesting discussion on Kuro5hin on how to achieve 
> peaceful coexistence between two opposite concepts in religious 
> thinking: the omniscience of God and the free will of Man. Is it 
> possible to have a universe sporting free-will and a God?

This is a natural result of the universe being a simulation run as a
quantum computational process. The Uberhacker can't view it in process,
but can examine the result from start to finish (alpha and omega). Can
the Uberhacker hack the universe? Depends on its ability to kludge
together alternate timeline segments.
--
simple, alpha-beta pruning :)